WIPO LIST OF NEUTRALS BIOGRAPHICAL DATA EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS LANGUAGES PRESENT POSITION

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1 ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION CENTER WIPO LIST OF NEUTRALS BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Dinant T.L. OOSTERBAAN Oosterbaan Advocaten Bentveldsweg EE Aerdenhout The Netherlands Telephone: Date of Birth: September 4, 1944 Nationality: Netherlands EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, ; New York University School of Law, ; Harvard Law School - Course on Internet, Accolades/Awards: Since 1994 recommended in The Legal 500; Recommended in PLC Which Lawyer? 2008 (highly recommended); Recommended in Who s Who Legal, LANGUAGES English, Dutch and excellent working knowledge of French and German. Attorney at Law in Haarlem, the Netherlands. PRESENT POSITION May 17, , chemin des Colombettes, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland T F E arbiter.neutrals@wipo.int W

2 2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BEFORE PRESENT POSITION Legal Counsel with IBM in Amsterdam, Paris and United States ( ); Attorney at Law in Amsterdam ( ). AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION IT and Internet Law; Intellectual Property Law, in particular in relation to IT, including trademarks, copyright and domain names; International Business Law. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES Editor of Computerrecht since 1984 (specialized IT law journal in the Netherlands); Member and co-founder of the Netherlands Association for IT and Law (member of the Board ; President ); Member and co-founder of Association for IT and Law of Netherlands Bar Association; Co-founder of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations; (member of the Board ; President and ). EXPERIENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Specialised international practice in IT Law, since 1981; Participated as chairman and speaker in over 100 national and international conferences on IT and Internet Law in 16 countries. EXPERIENCE WITH RESPECT TO DOMAIN NAMES Has handled domain name cases as litigator since 1998; Served as panelist in many.eu domain name cases administered by the Czech Arbitration Court. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS Deciding Data Processing Conflicts and Arbitration, Judge, arbitration or mini-trial, Computerrecht 1988/2, p (first article in the Netherlands on mediation); Software Protection in the Netherlands, Oxford University Press International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 1, No. 2, Summer 1993, p ; European Computer Law, a 1300 page treatise on European Computer Law, co-author of chapter of the Netherlands, Transnational Publishers, Inc, Irvington on Hudson, New York, U.S.A, 1996; Arbitration in IT-disputes, in: Vademecum Civil Procedure, Deventer: Gouda Quint 2002, p , Online Dispute Resolution, Computerrecht 2002/5, p. 272; E-commerce in 25 Jurisdictions Worldwide, London: Law Business Research 2003, p ; Domain Names in the Netherlands, in: Dietrich Beier, Recht der Domainnamen (Law of domain names), München 2004, p ; Microsoft: EU litigation lost, Computerrecht 2005, 8.

3 3 EXPERIENCE IN COURT LITIGATION Litigation in Dutch courts since 1981; arbitrator and counsel in multiple arbitrations involving software protection, software licensing and malfunctioning IT systems; listed as arbitrator with WIPO and Netherlands Arbitration Institute. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN ARBITRATION Advanced training course with Netherlands Arbitration Institute 2006; WIPO Arbitration Workshop, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, 2007; WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Workshop, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, EXPERIENCE IN ARBITRATION Arbitration and counsel in arbitrations involving Software protection, Software licensing and malfunctioning IT systems, domain names.

4 4 ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE SUMMARY TABLE Type Administering Institution Name Number of Presiding Arbitrator Sole Arbitrator Role Coarbitrator Counsel ICC Internation al LCIA Ad Hoc 1 1 Czech Arbitration Court Domestic Ad Hoc 2 2 Netherland s Arbitration Institute TOTAL

5 5 MEDIATION EXPERIENCE SUMMARY TABLE Type Administering Institution Name Number of Mediator Role Counsel Internation al Ad hoc Domestic (Estimates) Court-annexed Ad Hoc TOTAL 2 1 1